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Fluid Topics Publisher (ftpub)

Category
Technical Notes
Audience
public
Version
Latest

The ftpub tool is available as a pre-configured image in a Docker registry. The following pre-configured tags are available:

  • latest is an alias for the latest stable release.
  • beta is an alias for the latest test release.
  • alpha is an alias for an early test release.

Using the alpha version is not recommended.

It is possible to run the ftpub tool in a Docker container as follows:

  1. In the terminal window, run the following command to pull the latest version of the image:

    docker pull fluidtopics/publisher
    
  2. It is possible to target a different version of the image as follows:

    docker pull fluidtopics/publisher:beta
    
  3. Run the following command to go to the directory containing the content to be published:

    cd path/to/doc/directory
    
  4. Run the following command to create a volume named doc containing the content to be published:

    docker run -v $PWD:/doc -it fluidtopics/publish /bin/bash
    
  5. Run ftpub --help to display the help tool.

If not yet familiar with basic Docker concepts, see Get started.